Sat 7/14 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Swimming in Bengal & Invasive Species  More...

Sat 7/14 9:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Body/Head: Kim Gordon and Bill Nace  More...

Sat 7/14 9:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St San Francisco]
We are incredibly honored to announce that John Zorn and Bill Laswell will come together for the first time ever in San Francisco for two historic shows at The Chapel on Fri 7/13 and Sat 7/14! Join us, for "KONX OM PAX"

Tickets for both shows go on sale TODAY (6/28) at 4:30pm, and can be found Here

A portion of all proceeds from these shows will go to charities directly aiding the children separated at border camps, as part of The Chapel's Keep Families Together Concert Series (charities listed in ticket links).


Tickets will go fast, so make sure to grab them and we'll see you soon!  More...

Sun 7/15 2:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Shoko Hikage plays the music by Hyo-shin Na for koto - THE SKY WAS BEYOND DESCRIPTION

[Program] Hyo-shin Na's Music for Koto/Bass Koto and Piano
Shoko Hikage, koto/bass koto
Thomas Schultz, piano (special guest artist)
-Koto Music
-Five Pieces on Yoshie Hikage's Poems
-Night Procession of the Hundred Demons
-The Sky Was Beyond Description (for one player on koto and bass koto)
- Koto, Piano II
- Rain Study (for piano solo)  More...

Sun 7/15 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. It's free. If you want to contribute, bring snacks and drinks.  More...

Mon 7/16 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
The Steve Adams/Scott Walton duo and the Tom Weeks/Nathan Corder duo perform together at Studio Grand.  More...

Tue 7/17 8:00 PM Z Below [450 Florida St SF]
Thingamajigs Performance Group: stations 2: bearing the burden  More...

Tue 7/17 8:30 PM Elbo Room [647 Valencia St, San Francisco]
Mistresses:Buke+Gase, Ahleuchatistas/KYN/IMA/Smile Lines  More...

Wed 7/18 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Phillip Greenlief and Jon Raskin's 2+2 performs rare music from the notebooks of Steve Lacy, with Scott Amendola and Kjell Nordeson  More...

Wed 7/18 7:45 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight Street]
Dub Sessions (Fletcher Pratt), 404 Not Found, Klooj with Si-si Dance, Horaflora

Dub Sessions
A Midori Records tape release party for Fletcher Pratt's Dub Sessions excuted by an all-star lineup featuring Robert Lopez, Alex Cohen and Tom Weeks! https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/dub-sessions-vol-4

404 Not Found never fail in their unending search for the unfindable, the siiick "scuz-techno duo of Claire Staples and Alex Cargile (CCR Headcleaner) are the inventors of typo metal, never a hit!
https://soundcloud.com/404-not-found-4

Klooj with Si-si Dance
Klooj (Thom Blum, Charles Kremenak) with Si-si Dance & Performance Art Project (Janet Silk) premiere a section titled "Tales from Hunter's Point Shipyard."
https://soundcloud.com/klooj | https://www.facebook.com/pg/1sisi.D

Horaflora
As Weird Ear co-founder Raub Roy gears up for his total hotness Summer tour, this will be his newest concoction. Make like hot n bothered guineapigs, come crowd up at the nozzle!
https://weirdearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-gland-canyon  More...

Thu 7/19 7:00 PM Z Space [450 Florida St SF]
Thingamajigs Performance Group: stations 2: bearing the burden  More...

Thu 7/19 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm Chamberlain Zhang
8:50 pm Cruel Diagonals - Megan Mitchell
9:30 pm rEEk  More...

Fri 7/20 1:00 PM LinkedIn SF [222 2nd Street San Francisco]
This is the monthly inWooble broadcasted live from Linkedin Office in San Francisco

Special Guests:
Doug Lynner and the Serge Tcherepnine Mystery Machine
Andrew Van Wart, aka Normalien

Streaming will be on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/user/franckhlmartin/live

and on Twitch

If you have a modular synthesizer and would like to perform with us, contact one of the hosts.  More...

Fri 7/20 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
CRUEL DIAGONALS(record release!)•FYRHTU

Join us for Adobe's monthly music series!
This month we have some of the Bay Area's, nay, the world's best improvisors, experimental acoustic, amplified, electronic composer/performers ("..how dare he!") in the intimate setting you've come to know and love at Adobe Books on a early Friday eve (note,7:30pm, perfect for after work!) make these dark days a bit brighter in cosy company at Adobe Books!  More...

Fri 7/20 8:00 PM Fireside Lounge [1453 Webster St, Alameda, CA 94501]
Grex Electric Ghost Parade Album Release Show

Featuring IMA, Qualia, & Scott Amendola's Orchestra di Pazzi

Oakland art rock band Grex (Karl Evangelista, Rei Scampavia) stages a triumphant homecoming show to celebrate the release of the new album Electric Ghost Parade, joined by an array of Bay Area mind-benders: entrancing electro-percussion duo IMA, prog/soul powerhouses Qualia, and special chamber version of Scott Amendola's epic Orchestra di Pazzi.  More...

Sat 7/21 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
HUSH Series — Hans Otte’s Book of Sounds

Get lost in Hans Otte’s 12-movement masterwork for solo piano, The Book of Sounds (1979-1982), performed by pianist D. Riley Nicholson. This underperformed piano cycle uses rare architectures and structures to weave minimal, subtle, haunting sounds in and through the piano. It “lets sounds be sounds” (John Cage). Casual seating and drinks will be on hand to help you through the journey.  More...

Sun 7/22 4:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Sarah Cahill

Sarah Cahill, piano

Program:

Phil Kline Long Winter
John Adams China Gates
Annea Lockwood RCSC
Samuel Adams Shade Studies
Meredith Monk Steppe Music (excerpts)
Pauline Oliveros Quintuplets Playpen
Terry Riley Be Kind to One Another  More...

Sun 7/22 5:00 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
Touch the Gear Expo
Current Exhibitors: Amanda Chaudhary, Andrew of Chopstick, Andy Puls, Bart Hopkin, Bob Ladue, Collette McCaslin, Dania Luck, David Leikam, Gabby Wen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Jeff Klukowski, Jaroba, Jess Rowland, L.J. Altvater, Peter Whitehead, Tammy Duplantis, Tom Djll
Outsound's original public event Touch the Gear is a hands-on, family-friendly exposition open to the public. During the evening attendees get to roam among inventors and musicians while experiencing sound producing gear, computers, instruments and inventors with their various different configurations of “gear”--everything from oscillators and electronics, to planks of wood with strings attached. All attendees get to ask questions, make sound and experience how the instruments work, in an environment that demystifies technology while inspiring creativity.
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Sun 7/22 8:00 PM Gold Lion Arts [2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento]
Social Stutter, a saxophone quartet led by composer/altoist Beth Schenck along with Kasey Knudsen, Phillip Greenlief and Cory Wright. They blurs the line between strictly written chamber music and soaring free jazz. Solos emerge from the natural order of intricately written lines

Also performing is the
Clifford Childers, Jon Raskin and Jenn Schaaf Trio finding pathways of sound, warping time and generally having a good time stretching the capabilities of brass, sax and drums.  More...

Mon 7/23 8:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
"The Breath Courses Through Us"
a documentary film about the New York Art Quartet
directed by Alan Roth
featuring: Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, Milford Graves, Reggie Workman, Amiri Baraka
with: Steve Lacy, Pierre Dørge, Ben Young
Buy tickets for 17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit  More...

Mon 7/23 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Social Stutter + Shariat/Schwenkler Duo  More...

Tue 7/24 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
'Sonic Foundry III' a night of sonic invention with
Tim Thompson brings his Space Palette Pro, an exploratory technology enabling complexity and extending human capability!
Pet the Tiger Inventors Collective presents Harmonic Series Gamelan performing "Music for Fairies and Elves", original incidental music for Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
David Samas, Bart Hopkin, Peter Whitehead, Daniel Schmidt, Stephen Parris and Ian Saxton
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Tue 7/24 8:00 PM Osher Lecture Hall [SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus 800 Chestnut St San Francisco]
Matmos Performs at SFAI  More...

Wed 7/25 12:00 AM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
'The Art of Noise' a night of sonic exploration with
SO AR featuring cellist Shanna Sordahl and percussionist Robert Lopez emphasizes the musical transformation of spaces through the ritual of performance
XAMBUCA aka Chandra Shukla (sound)strives to give emphasis to art both sonically and visually.
Doors 7pm Q&A 7:30pm Concert 8:00pm
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Thu 7/26 6:30 PM Throckmorton Theatre, Tivoli Room [142 Throckmorton Ave Mill Valley, CA 94941]
Del Sol String Quartet  More...

Thu 7/26 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
'CarneyVal' a night celebrating the memory of Ralph Carney, a saxophonist and pillar of the San Francisco Bay Area music community for 28 years with
Rubber City
David Slusser - saxophones, Sheldon Brown - saxophones, Chris Ackerman - drums, Richard Saunders - double bass
The Ralph Carney Memorial Octet
David Slusser and Richard Saunders from Rubber City will join Karina Denike and Michael McIntosh from the Serious Jass Project, along with reedists Rent Romus and Phillip Greenlief (also the arranger), Myles Boisen on guitar, and Suki O'Kane on drums
Doors 7pm Q&A 7:30pm Concert 8:00pm
Buy tickets for 17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit  More...

Fri 7/27 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Affirmative Action  More...

Fri 7/27 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
'Night of Stone' a night of exploratory rock and psychedelia with
Dire Wolves
Sheila Bosco - drum kit, Brian Lucas - bass,
Jeffrey Alexander - guitarmagoria + moog + wooden sax, Arjun Mendiratta - violin
CDP
Amanda Chaudhary - keyboards/synth, Joshua Marshall - tenor saxophone, Tom Djll - trumpet/synth, Mark Pino -drums
Doors 7pm Q&A 7:30pm Concert 8:00pm
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Fri 7/27 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Robert Simonds: American Women Composers, music for solo violin  More...

Fri 7/27 9:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Hundred Waters and Eartheater A/V at Gray Area Festival

On Friday night of the 2018 Gray Area Festival, Hundred Waters and Eartheater join us for an evening of detailed sonic tapestries and optimistic melodies.

Eartheater will begin the evening with their unique foley-filled digital production, a three-octave vocal range, and classical composition between obsessively detailed romantic electronica. Hundred Waters will close out the night with their remarkable melodies that twist and turn, blurring the lines between acoustic and electronic sounds.

Doors at 9pm. This event is 21+  More...

Fri 7/27 9:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
Charlie Hunter Trio  More...

Fri 7/27 9:00 PM Roxie Theater [3117 16th St San Francisco]
Documentary Film: Milford Graves Full Mantis

“One of the best jazz documentaries ever assembled… a singular viewing experience.” – Byron Coley, The Wire : Adventures In Modern Music  More...

Sat 7/28 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Opera on the Spot: Opera Scenes and Arias  More...

Sat 7/28 7:30 PM Community Music Center [544 Capp Street SF]
17th Annual Outsound New Music Summit
The Bay Area's Creative Music Festival
'Ask the Ages' a celebration of ecstatic expression and introspection with
KREation Ensemble featuring Marilyn Crispell
Kevin Robinson - tenor saxophone, Lee Hodel - Acoustic Bass, Tony Gennaro - Drums, Marilyn Crispell -piano
Bobby Bradford's Brass 'n' Bass
Bobby Bradford Theo Padouvas - cornet, Scott Walton, Bill Noertker - double bass
Doors 7pm Q&A 7:30pm Concert 8:00pm
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Sat 7/28 9:30 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Second Woman, Patricia, Layne and Machinedrum at Gray Area Festival  More...

Sun 7/29 1:00 PM Koret Auditorium [100 Larkin St San Francisco]
Does the Secret Mind Whisper? Roscoe Mitchell Honors Bob Kaufman  More...

Mon 7/30 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Adams McNalley Vlatkovich  More...

Mon 7/30 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Motoko Honda's Simple Excesses + Force, Keenan, Russell, Tambellini  More...

Thu 8/02 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 pm Skullkrusher
Philip Everett - analogue electronics, percussion, autoharp, xlarinet
9:00 pm Kazuko
Brando Solomon - alto saxophone/pedals  More...

Fri 8/03 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
White Boy Scream & William Hutson  More...

Fri 8/03 8:30 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Sun Araw/ Jeweled Snakes/Lord Tang/Dub Sessions  More...

Fri 8/03 9:00 PM Starry Plough [3101 Shattuck Ave @ Prince Berkeley]
9 pm
vegan butcher
angela coon - voice
John Shiurba - guitar, compositions
wil hendricks - bass
Suki O'Kane - drums

10:15
Fred Frith - guitar
Phillip Greenlief - alto and tenor saxophones
Scott Amendola - drums, electronics  More...

Sat 8/04 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Brutal Sound Effects Festival #83

Hans Grusel's Krankenkabinet
Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase
KROB (eyenoise)
Angela K Roberts & Scott Goff
Jack Hertz
Amphibious Gestures
Earspray
Human deSelection and Realization Nature Group  More...

Sat 8/04 8:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
RATSKIN Explastical: White Boy Scream / Bill Hutson  More...

Sun 8/05 5:00 PM Soundwave Studios [2240 Wood St Oakland, CA 94607]
Resonant Frequencies is a monthly open mic night specifically for Electronic Musicians and Visual Synthesis. No DJ's, No Singer Songwriters. Just you and some machines, making love in sweet {dis}harmony.

The focus is on hardware sets yet other modalities are encouraged. We welcome all genres of music; what better way to do that than getting together, sharing those ideas and make connections.

Let's build the scene we want to see.

Live visuals will be provided by Dirty Bill + guests! Please inquire about performing visuals.

Soundwave Studios is gracious enough to host this event on their stage.

Details:
15-20 Min Sets.
Sign up from 5-6pm. 1st Set at 6pm.
You are provided 8 channels on a mixer and power.
Please bring all necessary cables.  More...

Mon 8/06 8:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
The Monday Make-Out
The cutting edge of Bay Area jazz and improvised music--

Set #1: Lo Conocen (*debut* - new music)
Bruce Ackley-reeds, Karl Evangelista-gtr, Nava Dunkelman, Jordan Glenn-perc

Set #2: On Some Bull (modern jazz/hip-hop)
Nick Obando - as, Señor Gigio - emcee, Aaron Levin - dms, Leo Lober-Tracy - b

Set #3: Tri-Cornered Tent Show (psychedelic blues/free jazz)  More...

Mon 8/06 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Josh Allen/Henry Kaiser/Spirit/Joshua Marshall+HungProfessionals  More...

Wed 8/08 8:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia St San Francisco]
Peter Brötzmann / Keiji Haino Duo  More...

Thu 8/09 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 pm Burchett/Nelson
Dylan Burchett - computer, Joel Nelson - guitar
9:00 pm Zu Zed
John Givens - guitar, drums, vocals, Laurie BK - vocals, found objects, Scott Devaney- crazy ass beats  More...

Fri 8/10 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Emily Hay (flutes/vocals/FX), Thomas Dimuzio (live sampling, electronic FX) and Motoko Honda (piano, electronic FX) perform solo, duo and trio soundscapes and music improvisations  More...

Fri 8/10 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Hans Tammen and The San Francisco Third Eye Orchestra  More...

Fri 8/10 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Defining the Avant-garde - with Sung Kim, Zachary James Watkins, John Shiurba, Tom Djll and Gino Robair  More...

Sat 8/11 8:30 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
A Brief Spark Bookended by Darkness  More...

Sun 8/12 6:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
RDL+ teams up with trombonist Patrick Malabuyo

A monthly series curated by RDL+, Bay Area Bridges celebrates the Bay Area music scene with Oakland as its launch pad.

This month, RDL+ teams up with trombonist Patrick Malabuyo, reinventing older compositions, while creating new pieces. Inspired by Malabuyo’s tone and creativity, RDL+ writes for him. Also a gifted composer/arranger, Malabuyo will present new work inspired by the collaboration.  More...

Sun 8/12 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Shapeshifters Cinema presents Lori Varga  More...

Sun 8/12 10:00 PM KPFA 94.1FM [KPFA Radio Berkeley, CA]
Appearance on Frequency Modulation Radio Show
Solos, Duos and more
Hosted by Thomas Dimuzio
KPFA 94.1 FM Berkeley, CA  More...

Mon 8/13 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Emily Hay (flutes/vocals/FX), Thomas Dimuzio (sound art, live sampling, electronics)
Gabby Wen (electronics), Huang Ya-Nung (suona, live visuals)  More...

Tue 8/14 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
James Fei•Shen&Germaine•Monopiece  More...

Tue 8/14 8:00 PM The Laundry SF [3359 26th St SF]
Resident is a monthly Open Mic event started by Jeremy Black and friends in 2017. Set in a casual atmosphere in an awesome location, The Laundry, it is the perfect event if you are a beginner or even experimented musician/performer and want to reach out to the San Francisco Community.  More...

Tue 8/14 9:00 PM Uptown Nightclub [1928 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series presents:
- Key West (Brian Pedersen, Randylee Sutherland, Jay Korber)
- Kasey Knudsen Trio (Miles Wick, Jon Arkin)
- Kim Nucci  More...

Wed 8/15 7:30 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2087 Addison Street Berkeley]
Jazz in the Neighborhood Presents: House of Faern
A quartet with Beth Schenck (alto saxophone), Jenny Scheinman (violin), John Wood (piano), and Matt Wrobel (guitar).  More...

Thu 8/16 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A Circle Has No Beginning by Sameer Gupta  More...

Thu 8/16 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:00 pm Cohen/Fluke-Mogul/Weeks
gabby fluke-mogul - violin, Tom Weeks - alto saxophone
9:00 pm Rubinstein/Ghandhi/Murray
Aaron Rubinstein - guitar, Kaelen Ghandhi - saxophone, Kevin Murray - drums  More...

Thu 8/16 9:00 PM The Chapel [777 Valencia Street San Francisco]
The Mattson 2 + Astronauts, etc.

Identical Twins Jared & Jonathan Mattson Create a Bold, Modern Reimagining of John Coltrane’s Revered Masterpiece A Love Supreme  More...

Fri 8/17 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Rashaan Carter solo bass and a 4 course meal!  More...

Fri 8/17 7:00 PM Octopus Literary Salon [2101 Webster St. #170 Oakland]
Lords of Outland, Ghandhi/Murray/Rubinstein, Stone Raft  More...

Fri 8/17 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Solo Organ•Dunkelman/Fluke-Mogul/Nishi-Smith•French Radio  More...

Fri 8/17 8:00 PM Old First Concerts [1751 Sacramento St. SF]
Henry Plotnick & Friends: Jazz pianist and composer Henry Plotnick brings his unique, energetic musicianship to Old First in a very special concert of originals, jazz standards, and work by new composers. Just seventeen years old, he has performed throughout the Bay Area at venues such as SFJAZZ, Davies Symphony Hall, SFMoMA, California Jazz Conservatory, Stanford University, JCCSF, Legion of Honor, Contemporary Jewish Museum, and San Francisco City Hall. Henry brings with him the highest caliber teen jazz musicians in the Bay Area.  More...

Sat 8/18 7:30 PM The Red Poppy Art House [2698 Folsom St @23rd St SF]
Daniel Riera’s Future Primitive Ensemble: Multidisciplinary Space Jazz

Flutist, controllerist, and sound designer Daniel Riera presents a new experience merging the improvisatory freedom of jazz with the expansive sonic landscape of electronic music. Using electrified woodwind and percussion instruments, synthesizers, projections, and dance, the Future Primitive Ensemble creates a dialogue about the relationship between human and machine, modern science and ancient wisdom.  More...

Sat 8/18 8:00 PM The First Church of the Buzzard [2601 Adeline Street Oakand, CA]
Moe!kestra! Piece No. 1: Death of a Piano
$6 – $10  More...

Sun 8/19 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
7:30pm Pikuva Sielu
John Vaughn - saxophones/Robert Kuhlmann - guitars/Mark Pino - percussions
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie performs Tricycle, part 3: Leonora
Annelise Zamula - alto sax, flute/Josh Marshall - tenor sax/Bill Noertker - contrabass/Dave Mihaly - drums  More...

Sun 8/19 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. It's free. If you want to contribute, bring snacks and drinks.  More...

Sun 8/19 8:00 PM Neck of the Woods [406 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94118]
Grex, Mourning Mountains, Long Hallways (PDX)

Portland experimental/post-rock band Long Hallways makes a rare visit to San Francisco, joined by Oakland art rock band Grex—hot on the heels for releasing their new album, Electric Ghost Parade—and Bay Area group Mourning Mountains.  More...

Mon 8/20 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Pinbokeh + Michael Flora (solo) + RM Francis (solo)  More...

Wed 8/22 6:00 PM B4BeL4b [184 10th Street, Oakland, CA]
an experimental audio-visual experience featuring New York's avant-garde electronic composers ARIADNE, with support from local noise duo Vio, as well as loop-maker Casey Chisholm and chaotic electronic musician Sea of Dogs  More...

Wed 8/22 7:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
The Drum and the Word: An evening of percussion and poetry with Dame Drummer and Tongo Eisen-Martin  More...

Thu 8/23 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
8:15 pm John Bischoff
8:50 pm RM Francis
9:30 pm Michael Flora  More...

Fri 8/24 7:00 PM Sound & Savor [24th and Adeline Streets Oakland]
Sameer Gupta solo tabla and a 4 course dinner  More...

Fri 8/24 7:00 PM Pro Arts [150 Frank H Ogawa Plz Oakland]
Expanded Cine-Rituals for Dual Buchla Performance

Rick Reed
Dan Burke
Thomas Dimuzio
Lori Varga + Kit Young (visuals)  More...

Fri 8/24 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
American Narratives – Music by Kyle Hovatter & Emma Logan  More...

Fri 8/24 9:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Trance Mission Duo featuring Stephen Kent & Beth Custer  More...

Sat 8/25 8:00 PM House Concert in North Berkeley Hills [Please email Harry@fullplatemedia.com for details]
House concert in private home in North Berkeley Hills with clarinetist/composer Ben Goldberg featuring music of Thelonious Monk. Mr. Goldberg will play 2 sets, with wine and cheese served during the intermission. Seating is limited. For information, please contact the concert host at: Harry@fullplatemedia.com  More...

Sun 8/26 6:00 PM Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco [750 Kearny street, 3rd floor (in hotel) San Francisco, CA 94108]
Yan Jun makes a rare visit from Beijing with a solo feedback performance, "linear duo" with Bay Area artist Gabby Wen and a talk on experimental music in China. Presented by 23five & Chinese Culture Center of SF.  More...

Sun 8/26 7:00 PM Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive [2155 Center St. Berkeley]
Full: Payne/Sonami  More...

Sun 8/26 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
Shimmering voice and rattle sound poetics with
Pitta of the Mind
Maw Shein Win - poetry
Amanda Chaudhary - keyboard/electronics

Anbian/Robinson/Romus
Robert Anbian - poetry
Rent Romus - saxophones/flutes
Donald Robinson - drums  More...

Mon 8/27 9:30 PM Studio Grand [3234 Grand Ave, Oakland]
Oakland Freedom Jazz Society: Rent Romus's Life's Blood Ensemble + Brown Slusser plays Rubber City  More...

Tue 8/28 7:30 PM Tom's Place [3111 Deakin Street Berkeley]
BRUCKMANN / SCHOENBECK / PHILLIPS
On the occasion of bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck’s visit from New York, an improvised trio first meeting comprising three long-term dyads.

SULT explores the hidden sounds of acoustic instruments (guitar, contrabass, percussion), magnifying them with microphones so the audience can join them inside their silent cacophony. Subtle harmonics become saws cutting through metal, and creaking wooden bodies become sinking ships. Their expression is primitive and raw, but while their playing embraces chaos, it is matched with discipline and the history of a decade-long mind-meld. The group sounds as one, with the gestalt of simultaneous layers taking primacy over any solo expression. The equality of the voices, however, invites the listener to focus on threads of their own choosing and make their own discoveries. (Jacob Felix Heule - percusion; Guro Skumsnes Moe - contrabass; TBA - acoustic guitar)  More...